i live in the ambassador hotel. i am a person with disabilities. i am part of them for years. [inaudible] as i listen to the president and speaks that we have to be smarter in managing things. i know our assets and sro's isn't that great for people when i need my home care worker, assistant or others. it's hard to separate the physical assets from the physical abuse. good thing we danced last night on that, but i definitely know that it's time in the next four years we have to be a smarter government and agency to work and make this a better world. we have four years to do that and i hope this is the start of something great. there are a lot of people who are seniors and disabilities at

the sro hotels that look like me and i encourage them to go out. sometimes they don't get a chance to participate and scared and other things that go on in the city, but it's pertd nanlt because we have 260,000 people out of the population of san francisco who receive social security benefits and a lot of us sro's and medicare and medicare and i have a thing really to help make better physical assets. i have been thinking about some that create new jobs. everyone in the nation we would have to walk in, sit down in a bathtub made in america, by americans. i think that would cut health care costs and we talk always about jobs and safety and health and i like that we be able to be san francisco, the city that knows how to put things out, get these balls rolling and have a

diverse perspective to get things done because i know i would like to just like each one of you would like to have that walk in tub where you sit down where you don't have to fall and break nothing and you feel much better to volunteer and spread some happiness and joy so thank you and i hope this physical assets will be diverse. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment on -- yes for this item? >> this item if i am correct is senior disability action. >> yes. >> thank you council. my name is michelle schultz and i came here to support senior disability action previously senior action and planning for elders. i'm a member of this group and as far as being a

senior goes i'm not sure technically -- could be 50, 52, 62, 65 but i am disabled, and this place that meets once a month where you can go for empowerment and organizing of the seniors and people with disabilities. it's so key and so valuable, and especially the advocacy work that it does for human rights for seniors and people with a disability and i am just here. i can't praise it enough they have the senior university. they have a computer lab and just to reinforce that the next meeting march 14 is the town hall on social security because there is a lot of misinformation out

there, and we will set everybody straight. okay. please attend if you can. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. are there anyone more public comments on this? seeing that there is no more we're going to close public comment for that and we are going to go back to item five, the director's report. am i right? >> thank you. did the council have any comments on this agenda item? >> i'm sorry. does anyone on the council have any questions? seeing that there's no questions we will go back to the director's report. >> thank you so much chair wilson. i am carla johnson the interim director for the mayor's office on disability and i wanted to give you a briefing on some of the things happening in

the last month. our mayor, ed lee, gave his state of the city address on january 28, and this was actually the first state of the city address that he's given since he's been in office. rather than hold that meeting in city hall he choose to take the message to the south eastern neighborhood of san francisco at college track and college track is a nonprofit in the bay view that helps students from under served communities develop the skills that they need to thrive in both high school and ultimately in college, and the college track facility on 3rd street was one of the projects that our office worked on with our architectural access program. we did the plan check and the field inspection so i was particularly pleased to be able to visit the site for the state of the city and make sure it was fully compliant with the ada. the mayor used the speech to focus on his priorities for

local business, local employment, opportunities for youth, health care, pedestrian safety, transportation, and affordable and accessible housing, and all of these issues affect people with disabilities whether it's the traffic calming initiatives, and traffic signal changes that make it easier with people with disabilities to cross the street or new buses that have been ordered under this administration with low floors that make it faster and easier to board the buses without using the wheel chair lifts, but the mayor gave special emphasis to what i know is a council concern and really what we have been talking about at today's meeting which is our need for housing and hour need of housing of all kinds too especially affordable and accessible housing. and for

example the hope san francisco fund is using funds to built the inaccessible units in hunter ary view and we have looking for the most accessible housing as possible and we know that the southeastern neighborhood has some of the highest levels of living with mobility disabilities or seniors so we know there are some of the highest greatest need in that neighborhood. the first block of homes in hunters view opened in december and the next two blocks will be opening within the next five months. the housing authority i think you heard bevan dufty speak to has under gone a dramatic change under mayor lee and i think

that is -- we have a lot of hopes for the new housing authority to really address the conditions of the housing stock for some of the people who are truly most vulnerable. the mayor also talked about his program to address homelessness but i think bevan dufty really covered that better than any of us could and overall the mayor gave a good speech that was well received by our audience. i will skip over my briefing on the single room occupancy grab bar legislation because i think senior and disability action covered that pretty well. what is coming next with the grab bar legislation it will be going before the board of supervisors for their final hearing on february 26 at which time when it passes, and i expect it to pass because it was unanimously approved at the first hearing.

after the board of supervisors make their ruling then it would go to the mayor to be signed, and our office will be providing assistance to the department of building inspection, housing inspection services by developing a technical assistance manual to help the sro hotel owners make a grab bar installation that will be truly safe and secure which can be kind of difficult in these older buildings so we want to give them step by step directions how to do it right. for the last two months i have been giving the council reports about the accessible parking advisory committee so i wanted to keep you posted with the latest developments. a quick summary is the municipal transportation authority convened advisory committee in october and our task was to look at current,

state and local laws and policies around accessible parking placards and our goal is to look at possible legislation or policy development in order to increase the availability of accessible parking because we have heard over and over that the people who need it the most can't find it and they can't find it close to their destination. the committee has broad representation from the disability community and the mta director ed riskin and i are co-chairs and i want to talk a little bit about process with this committee because it's been very method cal and we're moving into the final phase of the project. the committee has been analyzing policies and laws developed by other cities and states around the country including new york, houston, detroit, and arlington, virginia. we have been

reviewing stakeholder interviews by people in the will disability community that live in those cities so they have the opportunity to give us a sense of what's worked or what hasn't worked. have people with disabilities gotten better access to parking as a result of the policy changes? at our next meeting on february 26 we are going to be discussing the merits of adopting possible policy changes here, and as soon as the committee agrees which policies they think should move forward we would like to bring those options to the mayor's disability council as well as the access ree committee for feedback possibly through a joint meeting in march or april with this physical access committee and the maac so none of the policy options are fixed in stone yet but we hope to get your feedback from them.

another project that our office has been working on is bike lanes and cycle tracks, and i know that the council remembers from earlier meetings that the city has plans to transform certain streets like market street and second street in order to make those streets safer and more desirable for both pedestrians and bicycles and after we heard feedback from the disability community about the cycle track installation in golden gate park our office saw the need and initiated a project to develop some accessibility building blocks for bicycle facilities and this project is necessary because the ada is silent on this area. it's a new feature. there are no design standards for bicycle facilities, but we can use the ada as well as the draft policy right-of-way accessibility

guidelines to develop some accessibility building blocks that make sense. some of the questions that have come up during the discussion is if you have a barrier or a buffer zone that separates a bicycle lane from a parked car then what should be the minimum width of the barrier or buffer zone so where a person with disaiktd has room to exit their car and travel to the corner crosswalk? another question is where do you put the blue zones, white zones, when have this type of facility? how do you fit para-transit boarding into the design and what does the bus stop look like with this different traffic and needs intersecting? so to further that process the mta is hosting a workshop on monday february 25. they're going to be using the second street project as a working model to

help us start to work with the community on some of those details, and our office as well as the dpw ada coordinate ors and provide assistance and it's an ongoing process. last i wanted to finish my report to also honor ken stein. at the last meeting he let you know he was retiring and yesterday was his last day with our office and it was good to hear from him today and to hear his message and we are going to miss him and i know that you will too. so that concludes my director's report, but at this point i would like to ask heather kitel to go over the

complaints we received last month and the request for service for accommodation that came in within the last month. >> thank you. >> good afternoon council. this month we received 102 inquiries. 85% were from the public and 14% of these inquiries were from city departments. our office provided technical assistance for 24% of these contacts. we also provided information and referrals for 66% of these contacts and we conducted service requests for 24% of the contacts. the topics of the inquiries were about service and support animals and disability accommodations and housing, businesses and education and employment. contacts also requested information about affordable housing, benefits and case management services. people also called to report bed bug infestations. in the month

of january we received three ada complaints, three curb ramp request, one request for accommodation. the request for accommodation we received was for an individual who are seakt concerns about the garfield pool and it's code compliantd but it did not meet the access needs of this particular individual. our office has been engaging in an interactive process with the individual to find a solution that works. all three of these complaints that our office received involved the homeless shelter system. there were reports of staff being unresponsive to the needs of people with non visible disabilities. our office has been working with the human service agency to set up additional training to address these issues and that concludes my case summary report. thank you. >> thank you. okay. we will

move on to item 10 which is information team of update of the muni system by roland wong who is excused absent today so we will get that report next month. we will move on to item 11 on any agenda item that were on the list today. do we have any public comment? >> hi. this is jessica lehman again. i am embarrassed in the director's report i was remiss of mentioning something in the senior action report which was extend a sincere thanks and recognition on the mayor's office on disability staff and the installation of phone jacks

in the sro's. i don't think through the land use committee and the first reading of the board of supervisors unanimously without all of their work, particularly carla and joannaa, for thinking through the issues and putting grab bars in bathrooms in sro's and working on the technical assistance manual which will be invaluable to make sure that property managers and landlords can put in the grab bars that work best for the buildings and seniors and people with disabilities that need grab bars so they're safer so thank you very much for all of your work. >> thank you. and this is public comment for items that was not on today's agenda. thank you. >> hello. i am barry ed man. uc ed mand and i am a

ambassador for 10 years today and today we losing a case worker who is going to work -- we prepared her to work with teenagers in san mateo and i told her around sro and the people like that how quiet she was through different situations should prepare her the young children how to be themselves, love themselves before they age and you can't change, and the idea that she was such a great case worker that she gave me paper accommodation to move to another location and sometimes in sro's we don't support -- we don't always report stuff that goes in and i would like to say our sro's should be improved immensely through the mayor's disability council. i see that

dust talked about the hope. i was at home six when it was riian white and i think it should be given much attention as hope and the shelter. sometimes there is sro could be like living inside a shelter. it's a hotel that is a shelter and i think for us to see -- i think with the physical assets, all of the new buildings they are doing the mercy building. we should put the people with the disabilities in first and leave space it's we need to get smart and where people go and how people live in san francisco and we are a beacon in the light for the world in so many instances but we don't want to have the two tales of the city and people with disabilities in

country and city and this is a great country as well as city and i am an advocate for myself and helps me live and you may not know i ran for mayor and i got a few votes. i think we spend too much money on politicians when we can make it easier. it's the elected officials that we have to all come out and san francisco is the city where people come and address things and get the world to look at, and my other thing is hopefully we will get a statute -- transgendered statute at treasure island and since we have the statue of liberty in new york and have a statue at treasure island and of peace

and we fought off aids and marriages and we can do this. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment? >> thank you. my name is michelle schultz and i forgot to mention before and you brought it up that not all disabilities are visible because i did have -- i am glad you brought up muni. the drivers -- mind% of them suck. okay. >> >> 90% of them suck. okay. i have to request being let off at the curb and also lower the stairs and i have had drivers look at me like "what's wrong with you?" and it's just rude and i did report one of them and also i'm glad you brought up about the park, golden gate

park. that's dangerous. and when my sister came to town -- because she drives me and we couldn't believe it. and i am sorry about ken stein. when i worked with him a little bit he's an excellent human being so i wish him well and thank you for taking the time to hear us today, and to reitderate how wonderful how sda is, senior disability action and to remind you about their upcoming town hall on social security. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. is there anyone public comment? is there anyone on the bridge line? okay. we will go to team 12 and

correspondence. no. okay. discussion -- we will go to team 13. councilmembers any comments? announcements? ms. harriet wong. >> hi. i am councilmember harriet wong. i would like to make an announcement of the san francisco chinatown lion's club is doing a joint fundraiser for the very first time with the lion's eye foundation. every every district in san francisco has a lion's club serving their community. the fundraising is very important because the monies that are going to be raised will go towards a piece of equipment for the lion's eye clinic. people with limited income can actually apply for free services such as cataract

surgery. the san francisco chinatown lions is a very active club in their intake process, so we are intaking maybe six patients a month which is pretty good. of course there is going to be a wait list, but it's always good to at least check out the information. you can always google "lion's eye foundation or lion's eye clinic or i can be reached at my email. thank you for listening. >> thank you hair yatd. is there anymore? seeing that there's no more announcements or anything else. don't forget about our next meeting next month which is march 15 same

time in the same room which is city hall here room 400 from one until four. thank you guys very much and please enjoy african-american history month, and thank you to everyone today who voted. i will take this vote and i hope you will be proud. thank you. we're adjourned.